Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disadvantage of that was you could n't have somebody in with the class for five or six lessons just standing there pretending to film . |
| 2 | Even this type of housing , however , is not always allocated solely according to need and council tenants are expected to pay economic rents , i.e. rents that would be charged in the private market . |
| 3 | ‘ I completely messed up going to altitude ’ |
| 4 | Even today excavation reports treat artefacts as separate entities neatly divided up according to material from which they were made , i.e. gold , silver , lead , bronze , tin , iron , ivory , bone , jet , shale , stone , then followed by coins , samian decorated , samian plain , samian stamps , amphora stamps , mortaria stamps and coarse wares . |
| 5 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |